After a Schenectady County jury ruled that seven defendants, including the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, were liable for $54.2 million in compensatory damages in the St. Clare’s pension case, the diocese’s official publication posted an article saying the diocese is not liable.
The religious organization’s publication contradicts other legal analyses of the case.
Verdict sheets read in court Friday detailed the percentages at which the jury determined each defendant to be at fault in the case to do with more than 1,100 St. Clare’s Hospital retirees losing some or all of their benefits after the diocese-affiliated hospital’s pension fund collapsed in 2019…